One is not the Loneliest Number


One might be the loneliest number but there is a difference between loneliness and solitude. Canadian Tanya Davis parlays her video around her poetry. Poetry can be more than just words on a white piece of paper.

tanya davis poetryPart poet, part songwriter, all performer, she dabbles in all aspects of art-making. Gorgeous Morning is a kaleidoscopic insight into a multi-dimensional creative. She poetically addresses the dark notes of herself, nurses her sentiments through sad-luck serenades about her late cat Henry, rekindles faith while paying witness to a festival of night bugs and wards off poem-promising knights and lovelorn princesses with quirky pop songs. Davis’ creativity is as fluid as her sexuality and as eclectic as her work. She writes and loves from the same place – her hopeful heart.

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Law and Order: These are Their Stories


These are Their Stories For over 20 years Law and Order has witnessed the Ten Commandments broken time after time. These are Their Stories is a site dedicated to some of the show’s popular one line synopsis illustrated by various artists. With over 20 years and counting spin-offs, this is one site that have an abundance of material.

These are their storiesEach piece is an artist’s interpretation of a one-line episode summary from the DirecTV program guide (full list of titles artists could pick from). Like the series that inspired them, they are sometimes straightforward and sometimes offer a twist; sometimes they contain no easy answers, and sometimes they are just plain goofy.

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All My Friends Are Dead


All My Friends Are Dead

Death will come to all creature great and small. It’s a topic not too often explored in books for kids. The whimsical approach by both Avery Monsen and Jory John is a refreshing look at extinction and other forms of termination. The inevitability is there but remote to young readers at this point in their lives. All My Friends Are Dead is  for all ages. The creators of the book want you to know they are very much alive. Preview>>

Avery Monsen and Jory JohnIf you’re a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you’re a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you’re a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children’s book for adults teaches valuable lessons about life while exploring each cartoon character’s unique grievance and wide-eyed predicament. From the sock whose only friends have gone missing to the houseplant whose friends are being slowly killed by irresponsible plant owners (like you), All My Friends Are Dead presents a delightful primer for laughing at the inevitable.

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Letter From Campbell’s Soup to Andy Warhol


Andy Warhol immortalized Campbell’s Tomato Soup. Here is a letter he got from executive William P. MacFarland the product marketing manager from Campbell’s Soup.

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TV Hat


Talk about tunnel vision. TV Hat looks like a platypus playing baseball or something. What a gimmick. Want to go clubbing? You will when somebody hits you on the noggin when you don’t see them coming. When the TV Hat is pulled it looks like a burqa. I know you are tempted to buy it.

TV Hat

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Sly Lebulleur The Bubble Boy


When I saw this video, only one thought resonated loudly. BUBBLE BOY. Sly Lebulleur’s symphony of soap is a childlike wonder of delight.

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Contraband by Taryn Simon


Contraband by Taryn Simon

John F. Kennedy International Airport caters to the largest collection of international clients that depend on easy flow of human traffic. With such constant bustle, you are bound to run into unsavory characters or just oblivious individuals who have no respect for the U.S. Customs. It seems people import the strangest things into North America. Some illegal with criminal implications, others just bizarre to us but not to them. Contraband examines a body of work created by Taryn Simon as she documents some outlandish things assembled from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Federal Inspection Site and the U.S. Postal Service International Mail Facility.

Within five days she witnessed things such as: African cane rats infested with maggots, African yams (dioscorea), Andean potatoes, Bangladeshi cucurbit plants, bush meat, cherimoya fruit, curry leaves (murraya), dried orange peels, fresh eggs, giant African snail, impala skull cap, jackfruit seeds, June plum, kola nuts, mango, okra, passion fruit, pig nose, pig mouths, pork, raw poultry (chicken), South American pig head, South American tree tomatoes, South Asian lime infected with citrus canker, sugar cane (poaceae), uncooked meats, unidentified sub tropical plant in soil. Her exhibition of curiosity can be seen at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills on Sept. 22 and at Lever House Art Collection in New York on Sept. 30. The book “Contraband” will be published by Steidl this fall.

Taryn SimonTaryn Simon lived in John F. Kennedy International Airport from November 16 through November 20, 2009. JFK processes more international passengers than any other airport in the United States. Contraband includes photographs taken 24 hours a day of over 1000 items detained or seized from passengers and express mail entering the U.S. from abroad.

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Toy Story 3: Inception


Nuff said. Toy Story 3 meets Chris Nolan’s Inception. Yes there are individuals out there with just way too much time on their hands. We love you for it.

Toy Story 3: Inception

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